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...think there’s a shift in taking votes and making sure there was discussion,” Sundquist said...
Both the APA and the Rand study call upon the Pentagon to do more to promote better mental health care among its troops. On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is expected to announce a policy shift to no longer require military personnel applying for security clearance to disclose psychiatric counseling. Currently applicants are asked whether they've undergone therapy within the last seven years. The most recent data showed less than 1% of some 800,000 people investigated in 2006 were denied solely due to their mental health profiles, according to the Associated Press. Still, the new change seeks...
...that really sharpens colors, tastes, senses, smells, hearing. Even though the taste is you digesting your own muscle tissues and fats, you still taste this sweet pear-drop in your mouth. Every time you taste water, it's so sweet - at least for the first 28 days, until you shift to digesting your organ walls, and then it begins to taste like sulphur and becomes horrific. I got liver and kidney failure from that...
...staged something of a revolt and were calling for his resignation. Perhaps he wanted to set up this link in his chain of denials before I left the service, or gauge how I was going to react to his position. Or Rumsfeld might have been anticipating a big political shift in Congress after the midterm November elections, which, in turn, might lead to Democratic-controlled hearings. I didn't know exactly why it happened at this particular time. I just know that it did happen...
...made "God bless America" the omnipresent political slogan that it is today. He used the phrase to conclude his dramatic nomination acceptance address at the Republican Party convention in July 1980, and once in office, made it his standard sign-off. Presidents since Reagan have followed suit, and the shift in presidential rhetoric could hardly be more striking...